Pad for ring boxes



. 26, 1940. w. JEFFERSON PAD FOR RING BOXES Filed April 17, 1939 I 25 ments of my invention being recited in the ap- Spectively 3 a d 9. e aw d W around t e 25 Patented Nov. 26, 1940 p UNITED STATES PATENT "OFFICE William Jefferson, Chicago, 111., assignor to F. H.

Noble & 00., Chicago, 111., a corporation of Illinois Application April 17, 1939, Serial No. 268,257

3 Claims. (Cl. 206-76) The present invention relates to the pad memshall stand in the pad. It will be noted that the her of small ornamental boxes used for the discuts defining the section 3. of the tongue are play and preservation of finger rings, especially inclined so that the base is narrower than the those having sets, such for instance as the boxes front and the tongue is thereby rendered more described in Shields Patent No. 1,906,822. The freely resilient. The flanges 4 and 5 on the op- 5 container itself may therefore be understood to pos Sides o the tongue s e to s en it somebe a small ornamental box having its body mom what so its resiliency is manifested principally ber formed to receive the pad to which my inc oss its base. nti n .1 1 l t Adjacent the opposite ends of the gap between Th object of my invention is the provision of the sections 2 and 3 of the frame, the metal at the 10 a durable pad which will at any time receive top of t e Skirt portion l is rolled down inwardly rings varying widely in size, and not be weakened at each side, to form rounded edges over which or broken down by their use with large Wide rings the covering materials can be applied smoothly. so as to be thereafter ineffective for use with thin, se Covering materials include a rectangular l5 narrow i A further bject is t provide piece of thin cotton batting 6 or other similar a pad with a ring slot which will throughout its p n y u stance of t ntially the same width life hold a ring therein firmly at the angle de es e pp faces of e pa and of such len th termined by its construction, without liability of as t0 p v de fo folding e batting d i to variation due to its impairment by previous use. the gap between the ton e 3 a d t e forward With the foregoing objects and incidental conedge of the rear Dertiell 2 f t e frame in form- 20 structional advantages in view, I have devised ing a ring p cke of the shape shown in Fig. 2. and invented the novel pad for finger ring boxes e fillifihing ab c Which covers the comhereinafter described in detail and illustrated pleted D s formed from a blank 7 0f t Shape in the accompanying drawing, the essential ele- Shown in he end sections, marked repended l i skirt of the frame on opposite sides of the ring In th d i Figure 1 i a perspective i opening, While the narrower central section II] is of my novel pad; drawn downwardly with the cotton batting be- Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section of the Death it into the p between t e t0 l1e 3 and the forward edge of the rear portion 2 of the 30 Fig. 3 is a perspective View of the two cover frame to fOYm t ring poc et.

members employed in the construction of my pad, It y e e e plained that in manufacturshown as separated, unfolded bl k and ing the pad the sheet metal of which the frame Fig. 4 is a similar perspective of a formed sheet is made is coated with a cementing material of 5 meta} member d as th body or frame 01 th such character as to soften and become adhesive 5 pad when heated. This coated material is run Like reference characters indicate like parts in through blanking and forming mechanism to all the figures of the drawing. produce the frame members described. These The sheet metal'frame of my pad (see Fig. 4) frame members and the associated covering ma- 40 is a shell of the general rounded contour of the terials are then subjected to the action of a covfinished pad, formed with a skirt portion I, mergering die apparatus which acts to first form the ing into upper top section separated along cut ring pockets by drawing down the central porlines, and comprising a rear section 2, curved tions of the materials into the recess between the at the rear to accommodate the usual spring parts 2 and 3 of the frame, and then successively hinge of the ring box, and forward top sections folds the materials on opposite sides of the pocket 45 cut and bent to provide a central tongue section down to the bottom of the skirt of the frame and 3 formed with inclined flanges 4 and 5 on each then upwardly on the inside of the skirt by elecside. The top section 3 at the base of the tongue trically heated die members which cement the extends in the same plane as the rear portion 2 covering material to the frame to form the comof the frame and forward section of the top on pleted pads. 50

each side of and forwardly of the base of the I claim: tongue, While the section 3 at the free end of 1. A finger ring pad comprising a sheet metal the tongue is bent along a transverse line to form frame member formed with a skirt portion and an inclined Wall extending downwardly and reartop sections integrally connected therewith inwardly at the angle at which it is desired the ring eluding a rear top section and a yielding tongue 55 which the base of the tongue is narrower than the inclined wall section.

3. A finger ring pad according to claim 1 in which the base of the tongue is narrower than the inclined Wall section, and the sides of the 5 tongue are provided with stiffening flanges.

WILLIAM JEFFERSON. 

